The Ocean and Us

Table of Abbreviations

BD BIP EBV

Biodiversity

Biodiversity Indicators Partnership Essential Biodiversity Variables Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation

ESPA GDP GEF GHG IPBES LDCs LME LMMA MCES

Gross domestic product Global Environment Facility

Greenhouse Gases

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and ecosystem Services

Least Developed Countries Large Marine Ecosystems Locally managed marine areas Marine Ecosystem Services Marine protected areas Marine Spatial Planning Marine and coastal ecosystem services

MES MPA MSP

NBSAP

National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans

OHI SDG SEEA SIDS TEEB

Ocean Health Index

Sustainable Development Goals

System of Environmental-Economic Accounting

Small Island Development States

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea United Nations Environment Programme Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services

UNCLOS UNEP WAVES

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